The Structure Of The Implicit Self-esteem And Implicit Self-esteem And Explicit Self-esteem Relationship

As the core of self-conception, Self-esteem influences people's mental health and is the hot topic of the psychological research filed. Along with the advance of self-esteem research, Greenwald & Banaji brought forward the concept of implicit self-esteem in 1995. The implicit self-esteem is an attitude that people have when they evaluate the objects which correlate to or segregate from themselves, but can't be aware in the introspective way. The proposal of implicit self-esteem makes it recognized that the concept of self-esteem is made of explicit self-esteem and implicit self-esteem. This is an innovation of the self-esteem study. More and more researchers focused on the implicit self-esteem, brought out lots of meaningful conclusions. Any way, the study of the structure of implicit self-exteem is few in the literatures of implicit self-esteem, and there is disputation about the correlation between implicit self-esteem and explicit self-esteem. The aim of this study is to investigate the structure of implicit self-esteem and the correlation between implicit self-esteem and explicit self-esteem.This study worked out the Chinese edtion of Implicit Association Test through questionnairing and experimenting adults, constructed the implicit self-esteem, examine the influence of measure order, socially desirable responding and time pressure on the correlation between implicit self-esteem and explicit self-esteem. The conclusions are as the following:1. Implicit self-esteem has six dimensionalities, they are the whole self-esteem, the character self-esteem, the learning self-esteem, the body self-esteem, the moral self-esteem and the society self-esteem.2. The measure order affects the correlation between implicit self-esteem and explicit self-esteem markedly. When explicit self-esteem measured firstly, the correlation between implicit self-esteem and explicit self-esteem is significantly higher than the correlation as implicit self-esteem is measured firstly. When explicit self-esteem is measured firstly, the correlation is significant and not when implicit self-esteem is measured firstly. The time pressure and the socially desirable responding don't affect the correlation between implicit self-esteem and explicit self-esteem markedly, and all the cerrelations are not significant.3. The measure order and the time pressure has an interaction effect on the correlation between implicit self-esteem and explicit self-esteem. The interaction shows that the time pressure affects the influence of the measure order on the correlation between implicit self-esteem and explicit self-esteem. When explicit self-esteem is measured with the time pressure, the correlation between implicit self-esteem and explicit self-esteem as explicit self-esteem is measured firstly is not significantly higher than the correlation as implicit self-esteem is measured firstly. However, when explicit self-esteem is measured without the time pressure, the correlation between implicit self-esteem and explicit self-esteem as explicit self-esteem is measured firstly is significantly higher than the cerrelation as implicit self-esteem in measured firstly, and all the cerrelations are not significant. There is no interaction between the measure order and the socially desirable responding and the socially desirable responding doesn't affect the influence of the measure order on the correlation between implicit self-esteem and explicit self-esteem.